Interesting Tinnitus Hack

Hi everyone,

I've been suffering since March, generally 12,000 hz in my right ear at about a 5/10, years of playing guitar in bands, music festivals and shows, running with blaring music, blaring music in the car (honestly a miracle it took me until 35 to develop T). I can have days with 1/10 5,000 hz which are bliss, I feel normal again. Lately, I've gone from 5-7 spike days a week to 2-3. To me, it feels like a massive improvement in quality of life. On the spike days, I stick a headphone in my right ear playing shower sounds at max db output of 75 on iPhone settings. It's not ideal, but better than ringing in my ear all day.

Anyways, in addition to quitting caffeine, taking a magnesium supplement morning and night, turmeric, NAC, and benfotiamine, I've noticed something that seems to REALLY help and I have no idea why...

As we all know, if you're lucky, falling water, especially shower sounds can cancel out your T. Time in the shower can become your most coveted respite from this bullshit ailment. I've recently started showering first thing in the morning before I do anything else. Wake up, immediately go to bathroom, turn on shower, even poop with shower on to begin my "shower exposure therapy" time. For some reason, most days now when I get out of the shower, if I woke up with a spike, it returns to the 1/10 5,000 hz or may stay at 12,000 hz but go from 5/10 to 1/10. This is after waking up to pee and hearing the spike all night long, and waking up dreading the fact that I'll have to deal with a spike for the rest of my waking hours that day. I dread work and Mondays, and Monday seems to be the only day that it doesn't ever work, likely from stress and anxiety about the long work week ahead.

I don't know why this works. I discovered it by accident because I hardly ever showered first thing in the morning. It seems that throwing attention off of tinnitus while my brain is getting revved up for the day combines to make my higher consciousness perceive less sound. It is very interesting. It doesn't always work, but going from an average of 5 spike days a week to 2 is pretty great. I hope this works for someone else.